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Evals Belong in the System You Already Have
AI changes how teams decide what “good” looks like, but good product teams have always needed ways to articulate what that means before the work gets…
Sep 10
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Ari Franklin
August 2026
Surfers and Divers
In a world of instant answers, real understanding means knowing when to leave the surface.
Aug 31
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Ari Franklin
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The Art School Model of Product Enablement
what I learned building an Enterprise product practice for 80+ PMs
Aug 6
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Ari Franklin
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July 2026
AI and the Work of Slowing Down
Tying the lessons from Daniel Kahneman to the current moment in AI
Jul 29
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Ari Franklin
AI Makes Coordination More Important, Not Less
The faster teams can generate work, the more deliberately they have to coordinate it
Jul 20
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Ari Franklin
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AI Agents Are Repeating the Microservices Trap
Splitting work into smaller pieces makes the system look cleaner, but the real complexity needs to be in the handoffs
Jul 13
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Ari Franklin
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Conviction versus Confidence
AI creates polished documents giving the appearance of conviction. But there's a difference between an idea you're confident about and a pressure tested…
Jul 10
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Ari Franklin
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AI makes the First Yes cheaper
AI lowers the cost of beginning things, but it does not remove the cost of owning what begins
Jul 8
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Ari Franklin
The Invisible Work Under Every Cascade
AI can help teams trace the hidden assumptions beneath their goal cascades.
Jul 2
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Ari Franklin
June 2026
AI Will Not Save You From Your Operating Model
AI adoption will fail when organizations try to scale it as a fixed methodology. It will work better when they spread disciplined adaptation
Jun 30
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Ari Franklin
Build what you’d use, then doubt what it proves: when every itch can become software
AI makes it easier to turn every idea into software. That makes personal use a better starting point, but a weaker reason to commit.
Jun 26
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Ari Franklin
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The Wrong ROI Question for AI
Evaluating AI with throughput accounting vs cost accounting principles
Jun 24
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Ari Franklin
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